Democrats are creating a big brouhaha over the possibility that Russia tried to influence the American presidential election by leaking information to WikiLeaks.  The argument is that it wasn't a fair election if a foreign power influenced it.

That is true only if the foreign power deceived American voters.  If the information was true, then that foreign power did us a favor in informing our voters.  The better informed our voters, the fairer the election.

Catholics and Evangelicals who were considering voting for Hillary could make a decision that was more in their own interest once they knew that her campaign advisers and liberal allies mocked them.  Likewise, Southerners, Latinos, and other victims of Clinton campaign vitriol were better off knowing the true attitude of members of the Clinton campaign toward them.  The email revelations exposing corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the unethical tilting of the primary election playing field against Bernie Sanders are revelations that helped voters make informed choices.

The Democrats would have us believe that the blame lies with the Russians, but the Russians are not to blame for the corruption of the Democrats.  The Democrats are. 

Democrat outrage that an outside country may have influenced the recent American election is hypocritical when one considers the steps Obama's and Hillary's State Department took to influence the Israeli election against Netanyahu, including supporting an Organizing for America-type campaign with digital ads, billboards, and phone calls.

Democrat hypocrisy becomes even more apparent when one remembers Mr. Obama's admission to Russian president Dmitri Medvedev that he'd be more flexible in meeting Russian demands after the 2012 American election.  Obama was willing to withhold information about his plans to make concessions to Russia from the American people in order to get elected.  An American president hiding the truth from the American people in order to sway an election is much worse than a foreign leader revealing the truth to the American people.

The hypocrisy of the Democrats becomes even more blatant when one considers how they blocked voter ID so that foreigners present illegally in the United States could influence the elections.  Even more outrageous is the death threats by Democrats that have been leveled at members of the electoral college in order to intimidate them into voting against Trump. 

Far more serious than the possibility that the Russians influenced the American elections is the probability that the CIA is trying to undermine the American elections by convincing the electoral college to vote against Trump.  When federal lawmakers demanded that the CIA provide proof of the Russian hacking allegations, the CIA refused to show up to provide congressional testimony.  This has led to suspicion that the CIA may be trying to manipulate the electoral vote.  Representative Devin Nunes said, "It is unacceptable that the intelligence community directors would not fulfill the House Intelligence Committee's request to be briefed tomorrow on the cyber-attacks that occurred during the presidential campaign."

"The Committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes." 

Representative Peter King arrived at the same conclusion and said the behavior of the intelligence agencies was "absolutely disgraceful."  Furthermore:

There is no consensus opinion, and yet we find it in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and yet the House Committee on Intelligence was told nothing about this.  This violates all protocols, and it's almost as if people in the intelligence community are carrying out a disinformation campaign against the president-elect of the United States.

The probability that the CIA is trying to sway the electoral college is increased by the fact that the CIA director, John Brennan, has a history of lying as well as the motivation to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.  Mr. Brennan has lied in the past about collateral damage of U.S. drones and was involved in creating the false talking points used by Susan Rice about the Benghazi debacle.

Brennan's motivation becomes clear when one considers that he opposes Donald Trump on key issues.  Trump has made clear that he wants to end the disastrous deal Obama made with Iran.  Brennan has said that ending the Iran deal would be "disastrous" and the "height of folly."  Trump is not against waterboarding and more extreme measures for dealing with terrorists, while Brennan is.  Trump is against jihadis coming to America; Brennan says "jihad" means "to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal."

It is quite possible that in the future, Brennan will release more "intelligence" to prevent Trump from becoming president and carrying out policies he believes are disastrous.  It is important that the electoral college treat Brennan's intelligence with a grain of salt.